Cheap Cooking, The way the world cooked when it was poor.

 Recently I have been cooking quite cheaply, I started thinking what would happen to the world if all our pre made foods were taken away, who could still cook the classics?
 I have mostly been cooking dishes that are flour based, and I have been amazed at how some of these items are  so similar in ingredients and procedure and can yeild different tastes and textures.

 Some of the things I have made in the last few weeks are:
Perogies
Gnocchi
Flour tortillias
Roti
Chinese Hand Pulled Noodles

 To put into perspective just how cheap this has been, a bag of flour is about 5$, I still have a half bag left, and the only other thing I have had to buy has been cheese and potatoes, mostly everything else needed is stuff most people have in their house anyways. Not to mention I got an average of 2-3 meals out of each of these items.

 For the most part these items were very easy to make, sorry I had not yet had this blog up and running yet or else I would have taken note of the quantities I was using and recorded them for your use. All of these except the noodles took around 15 minutes or less of my time to make.

 I found a great site for indian food, she uses videos and she's cute in her own way, the recepie for roti is on here and the site is pretty good in general. http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/

The noodles. If you have not seen how these fantastic noodles are made then I suggest this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auhHl5-6VdY. 

My first attemt at them was all right, by the end of a few hours of practice, I had a few instant noodles sized noodles that tasted pretty good, It's a very hard task to master but I plan on getting better. I found a pretty helpful site for making these noodles as well, it's pretty straightforward and it seems like he has taken a pretty scientific approach to trying to get these right. http://www.lukerymarz.com/noodles/index.html

I also have some pictures of what I made, I can post them if anyone wants to see them, just leave me a comment.